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Hi all,

I've moved some posts from the Major Structural Fires sticky.

Cheers
Meg

Just received an email with a session plan for a lesson I'm giving on Wednesday, and at the bottom of the signature was this:

How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?

Tyranus wrote:Just received an email with a session plan for a lesson I'm giving on Wednesday, and at the bottom of the signature was this:

How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?

You don't light campfires on a total fire ban day ? And I'd hardly call those matches careless, slashers and blades careless yes, butts maybe, but not matches.

well the match doesn't have a mind of it's own...it's the careless person holding the match. Still comes to the same thing though, when you don't want the fire it's easily lit...when you do want it you need a whole box of matches.

The fesa channel was stuck on in someones private vehicle. A couple talking and the kid in the background.
Anyway, got me thinking. what would happen if this radio system ever went down?

philby wrote:The fesa channel was stuck on in someones private vehicle. A couple talking and the kid in the background.
Anyway, got me thinking. what would happen if this radio system ever went down?

They can delink the channel. There's more than 1 repeater remember....

philby wrote:The fesa channel was stuck on in someones private vehicle. A couple talking and the kid in the background.
Anyway, got me thinking. what would happen if this radio system ever went down?

The poor operator was getting quite stressed wasnt she

Smithy wrote:

philby wrote:The fesa channel was stuck on in someones private vehicle. A couple talking and the kid in the background.
Anyway, got me thinking. what would happen if this radio system ever went down?

The poor operator was getting quite stressed wasnt she

yer the poor thing. The SOO would of been in her ear getting her to stop it.

Fastlane wrote:

philby wrote:The fesa channel was stuck on in someones private vehicle. A couple talking and the kid in the background.
Anyway, got me thinking. what would happen if this radio system ever went down?

They can delink the channel. There's more than 1 repeater remember....

question - isn't channel 55 the main channel where all the repeaters link to into town? so if ch55 went down what is the back-up channel?

anyone know which brigades attended the fire in rockingham yesterday?
cheers

alumina rd fire. rockingham.
Rockingham 1st
Rockingham 2nd
Hope Valley
Kwinana FRS
Kwinana South
Baldivas
Mandogolup
Secret Harbor
Canning vale
Helitaks
Salvation Army Food van
i may have missed some??

Rockinghams 3rd alarm yesterday had a heap of appliances some off the top of my head were Rockingham 1st and 2nd Hope Valley Kwinnana frs and Vollies Baldivis BFS, secret Habour and singelton BFS aswell as about 3 CFM's and a few DM's. At one stage they asked for air support and there was none available they were all out working hard allready. they ended up having to divert some heliatacks and fixed wings from some where north.


Didn't you get Paged Chriss
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BFB LT1 wrote:Rockinghams 3rd alarm yesterday had a heap of appliances some off the top of my head were Rockingham 1st and 2nd Hope Valley Kwinnana frs and Vollies Baldivis BFS, secret Habour and singelton BFS aswell as about 3 CFM's and a few DM's. At one stage they asked for air support and there was none available they were all out working hard allready. they ended up having to divert some heliatacks and fixed wings from some where north.

Kwinana dont have FRS, only VFRS.
singleton were not callled out.
kwinana south, mandogalup and canningvale 2.4 were called for mop up at 2200
rockingham, hope valley and kwinana pumps were parked up and did nothing. Although rockingham pump was used as control point before and after belmont ICV was there
belmont ICV attended.
2 helitacs 670 and 671. no fixed.

other appliances
Baldivis 4.4, lt1, lt2, 1.4 and 9.2
secret harbour HSR and LT
rockingham 2nd HSR and LT
rockingham 3rd LT
rockingham 1st, hope valley and kwinana light tankers.

cheers

Not been a good night.
2 x 3rd alarms and a fourth alarm.

Smithy wrote: Kwinana dont have FRS, only VFRS.

Yes they are a Volunteer Brigade, but they are FRS. There are many acronyms bantered about on this forum that are pointless or incorrect. There is no such thing as CFRS, but don't see people correcting that. Or maybe you should all start using VBFS and VSES?

*yawn*